Hardly a week goes by that something turns up, Thurber-wise, on Ebay, that I’ve never seen before. Case in point: this article by Doug Ermini for the April/May 1992 issue of Timeline Magazine (a Ohio Historical Society publication). Not just a page or two on Thurber, but ten, with numerous Thurber drawings, and photographs. If you’re new to Thurber and his work, it serves as a good primer (relatively inexpensive copies are available online here and there. I paid under $10.00 for my copy).
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Also New (to me): this 1949 Swedish edition of Thurber’s The Great Quillow, with art by Olle Eskell.
I’ve placed the 1944 US edition, illustrated by Doris Lee alongside for comparison.
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Thurber’s A-Z Entry:
James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run posthumously. According to the New Yorker’s legendary editor, William Shawn, “In the early days, a small company of writers, artists, and editors — E.B. White, James Thurber, Peter Arno, and Katharine White among them — did more to make the magazine what it is than can be measured.”
Key cartoon collection: The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments (Harper & Bros., 1932). Key anthology (writings & drawings): The Thurber Carnival (Harper & Row, 1945). There have been a number of Thurber biographies. Burton Bernstein’s Thurber (Dodd, Mead, 1975) and Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life and Times (Henry Holt & Co., 1995) are essential. Website